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by tfehring 8y ago
It's my understanding that companies only need to comply with GDPR when providing services to end users in the EU and that companies that comply with GDPR globally are only doing so due to resource constraints that Microsoft doesn&#x27
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by tfehring 8y ago
The article seems to support this argument: > In Boston, about 40 percent of respondents said they preferred denser, more pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods, while in Atlanta, just under 30 percent of respondents did so. In the absence o
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by tfehring 8y ago
HackerRank [0] is one option. I can’t vouch for it personally - in fact, I only discovered that it exists yesterday via YC’s podcast - but it seems like exactly what you’re looking for. [0] https://www.hackerrank.com/work
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Sure - but it’s important to distinguish that that’s a mainstream view among a relatively small subset of conservatives, not a mainstream view among conservatives in general (though I agree that the split is probably different in Silicon Va
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If that approach truly had broad support among conservatives, it likely would have been implemented by now. (I consider myself very liberal and am a strong supporter of such an approach.) But the reality is that a plurality of US conservati
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by tfehring 8y ago
- Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok): economics https://marginalrevolution.com - John Cochrane: economics https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com - Interfluidity (Steve Randy Waldman): all over the plac
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by tfehring 8y ago
Frankly, as an American, why should I care about this as far as my own privacy is concerned? Of course Apple has a price for which they’ll “sell” user data, but all that this says is that that price is less than the profit that it makes off
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by tfehring 8y ago
To clarify, I’m actually not all that interested in the day-to-day of national politics - I campaign and vote for the candidates that I support, but I largely don’t care about the specific ways in which Trump is embarrassing the country at
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by tfehring 8y ago
I listen to NPR on my (short) commute and read a couple Financial Times articles a day on average. I also read several finance, economics, and statistics blogs and newsletters; while those probably don’t count as news, between all of those
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by tfehring 8y ago
To clarify, I genuinely believe that Microsoft is embracing Linux. The issue is that, if history is any indication, its next two steps will be "extend" and "extinguish." I'm probably over-extrapolating a bit, but my
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by tfehring 8y ago
So it's fair to say that they're embracing Linux, then? Don't get me wrong, I'll be thrilled if it turns out that their newfound commitment to open source is driven solely by an interest in creating better software. Bu
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Primary source (2014): https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-re... Per the HN guidelines: > Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit th
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by tfehring 8y ago
The risk of a run on US retail deposits is negligible due to the FDIC. The credit crisis in 2007-2008 was driven by run-prone shadow banking assets outside the purview of the FDIC, not by retail banking. However, there is a significant ri
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by tfehring 8y ago
Here's a video of him talking about See's Candies and moats more generally. https://youtu.be/2MHIcabnjrA?t=1955 (In case the timestamp doesn't work, the relevant part starts at 32:35.)
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by tfehring 8y ago
Trump's victory and Bernie's popularity in the last presidential election seem like strong evidence that non-elites have more political power than it's often claimed. And I don't think policy changes that would benefit w
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That sentence of my last comment may be unclear, so let me rephrase - to the extent that globalization occurs , it needs to coincide with policy changes that offset the localized harm that it would otherwise cause. While this isn't th
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I don't disagree, but I also don't think it's appropriate to say that globalization and free trade should be avoided just because they've harmed those communities - globalization just needs to occur alongside policy chan
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Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16999962
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I agree, good point. See m4burns’s comment, which includes a link to broader UK data.
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Thanks for the link. Seems like the posted study’s results are very similar to the deficiency rates for the overall UK population in winter. (Their data was collected between February and April.)
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Yeah, absolutely - most regions probably have a nonzero population with Vitamin D deficiency year-round. But if I had to pick a place and time at which the overall rate of Vitamin D deficiency is high, the UK in February through April seems
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by tfehring 8y ago
The study you linked was based on a threshold of 50 nmol/L, while the originally posted study used two thresholds, 30 nmol/L and 50 nmol/L. At the 50 nmol/L cutoff, the study you linked indicates a deficiency rate of 41.
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>Meanwhile the marginal cost of an extra customer in the gym membership model decreases at scale. [...] This isn't the case for MoviePass. Each ticket costs the company the same amount. I think it's reasonable to say that Movie
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Prime Music is worthless because it's not comprehensive enough to replace a better service like Spotify. Same goes for Prime Video - I haven't seen anything worthwhile that isn't available on Netflix, unless you include title
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by tfehring 9y ago
I've been using Target a lot lately and have been pretty happy with it. Free 2-day shipping on pretty much everything with their store credit card, with the option to painlessly pick stuff up in-store if I need it the same day. (I actu
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by tfehring 9y ago
Interesting article I found in FT Alphaville's Further Reading section from yesterday [0]. The narrative around the likes of Tesla and cryptocurrencies is likely a tired one to many HN readers, but the broader narrative and arguments m
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Yes it's a bubble, so what?(researchaffiliates.com)
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They don't have $18bn in liabilities. Total liabilities as of 12/31/17 are $2.4bn, including $1.7bn in unpaid rent [0]. They've committed to paying $18bn in rent on space they're currently leasing [1]. But that&#x27
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Clinton was vocally pro TPP through ~2012 but gradually flip-flopped during the run-up to the campaign and actively opposed it during the campaign. It's absolutely possible that she would have flip-flopped again if elected, but I don&#
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I'm seeing a decline from 93% in 2012 [0] to 88% in 2016 [1], which isn't insignificant. And black voter turnout also fell by 7 percentage points from 2012 to 2016 [2]. Combining those figures, Obama got 620 votes per 1,000 eligib

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